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The very fact that Marbot and wnut in post 19 can discuss it like this shows the difficulty of managing expenditure from outside. How deep is the forensic accounting going to go and who pays for it? Who decides the value of free components, if driver salaries are excluded what might a well paid driver bring with him "free". Salaries in general are the biggest expenditure when you get down to it and cannot be excluded, struggling Williams "only" have had a maximum of 530 staff in recent years according to Patrick Head (Autosport 17th Feb), he quotes Honda before Brawn at 700 and Mclaren at "huge" numbers, who knows what the Ferrari figure is? If you exclude these salaries it makes a nonsense of the attempt to limit expenditure.
Personally I consider 530 staff "huge" to run a two car race team!!
As wnut says, it is an accountant/lawyer fest and teams would have to employ suitable extra numbers of their own professional advisors to prove that they are working to budget and have you seen the fees these guys charge!
Can never work as intended, even by "agreement", there will always be a way round it
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